Dr. Oz's pseudo-apology: "I, in general, get it right"
SalonOn Monday morning's "Fox & Friends," host Elisabeth Hasselbeck spoke with Dr. Mehmet Oz, television host and pseudo-science promoter, about a pattern of accusations against him and the "cures" he advertises on his television show. "The fact of the matter is I do toggle back and forth between hardcore medicine, which I do believe I do a very good job of getting it right," Oz said. A group of physicians employed by Columbia University recently wrote a letter to the university requesting that it terminate its affiliation with the celebrity doctor, citing his fear-mongering reports about genetically modified foods, arsenic in apple juice and repeated promotion of unproven cures. " Another study published in the British Medical Journal found that in an analysis of a random sample of episodes of Oz's show, less than half of his recommendations were scientifically sound.
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